InfoAge meeting, Wednesday, January 20.

Hello Everyone,

We will have a Wednesday planning meeting this week. We will start at 6:30 PM. We will enjoy pizza, discuss this years calendar, current projects and upcoming events.

**Highlighted Future Events** Remember to send events to calendar@InfoAge.org to have them posted on planning calendar.*A night to remember - Jan 30th. See your newsletter. If you did not get one, it means one of two things. Your membership has lapsed or we need to correct your address / membership entry. Email me so I can fix as appropriate.*April 1st & 9th TIROS 50th anniversary*May 6th V-E Day + 65 = dedication of 9032B & C as the WWII Home Front Living Memorial Museum*Aug 15th V-J Day + 65 = WWII Seminar and radar laboratory victory celebration.

>>>>Recent events and progress: There has been a ton. Please email things I miss to fill in the gaps.Great events - Good Progress - Great press coverage
Thank you to OMARC for celebrating the January 9th anniversary of Project Diana at the Diana site on Marconi Road.

A report by the G-Team: Steve G., Joe G and John T.:
Fred,The group has been involving in the following.
Assisted Michelle R. on Sunday and conducted tours.Salvaged doors, windows and blind parts in back area.Continued working on McCarthy building workshop area.Got Wayne in for check on building move possibilities.Found materials and instructions for blind rebuilds done by Matt and Blossom volunteers.Repaired windows in 9036, 9036 and telcom buildingWorking with Shaw Engineering on under slab sampling of 9010D and 9032D.Cut glass for Dan Lieb's project.Painted Guard Shack bathroom floor.Cleaned in HotelSorted recycling
*** Thank you gents

A report by Rob Davis of the GSC:
The Garden State Central Model Railroad Club, Inc. (100% InfoAgemembers) sponsored a holiday train show at InfoAge for the fourthconsecutive year. Originally scheduled to run for the two weekendsbefore Christmas, the second weekend was postponed until to January dueto the big snow storm. During the two weekends, the exhibit drew justover 1200 people to InfoAge, providing large crowds for the trainswhich spilled over to Mike G's village display and the other museumexhibits that were open. At times the crowd was so large there werelines waiting to get into the train room, which featured over 20simultaneously operating model trains ranging in size from tiny N-scaleto live steam G-gauge indoor/outdoor trains. The club's exhibit wasalso open during Mike G's InfoAge fund raiser where another 30 or sopeople came to see the trains.

------------------------------ We touched up paint in the hotel hall and lounge.- The first Haunted Hotel 2010 planning meeting went great - 14 persons attended. Lots a good ideas.- We posted our mission statement posters in the lobby for visitors to read.- 9032 restroom partitions completed and painted. - 9032 radar countermeasures room almost ready. Once the BRAC tests are done we will paint the floor.- The 21 NJR posters Dan L. created using Lynn B's photos went to NJR today. The poster for Keily Construction too.- The WWII Draft set of the Home Front Living Memorial posters are ready for review.- New versions (22" by 34") posters of the Russ Henderson 1914 Belmar station photos are ready for hanging. They show visitors exactly what the photos show in 'call-outs'.- Nels and company picked up a trailer full of fallen branches for visitor safety and site appearance.- We have a BOT meeting on Tuesday. Much progress was made on updating the ByLaws- Mr. Robie Lange of the NPS National Landmarks Survey team visited on Wednesday. It was a good visit- Thanks to Wall committeeman Jeff Foster we now have the Astronaut Rusty Swigert artifacts from the Wall library to add to our space display.- Check Amazon.com to purchase a copy of Frank O'Brien's book on the NASA/Apollo Flight Guidance Computer. As you know we have one on display in an excellent exhibit made by Frank.- Frank O., Jeff F. and Mike G. are cooking up a rocketry day to honor Rusty Swigert in summer.- Bob G's book on Camp Evans history is moving forward. Thanks to Larry T., Ray Chase and others helping Bob in the massive undertaking. Frank O. and Phil V. understand first hand the challenge of becoming a published author.- Thank you to Lewis Meixler for hosting a meeting of the NJ Regional Homeland Security Technology Committee at Camp Evans. We made new friends in the committee and may have a university offer some classes at our facility.- The Wall ROTC continues to practice in the TIROS building and do better and better in competitions

- This past Sunday we were part of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service. Michele R. and Blossom members provided leadership to make the event a great success.We raffled two copies of the collected works of Dr. King in the book "A Testament of Hope"; the volunteers painted giant likeness of two American scientist with African Heritage; painted the upstairs ladies room; disassembled, cleaned and reassembled with new webs and cords old style window blinds saving us over $240 in labor; cleaned all our restrooms, cataloged and sorted over 200 technical drawings of Camp Evans and its buildings; made computer keyboard letter pins for messages; collected and sorted dozens and dozens of supplies donated by visitors; assembled metal shelves to store the supplies until needed and helped Mike G. pack up his Holiday village display. Lots and lots of valuable work. Thank you Rev. Dr. MLK Jr, Day of Service volunteers and Blossom. During the event our regular volunteers gave tours to the many visitors.

I hope to see you at the next few meeting to help plan this exciting year of progress. It is up to us to make historic Camp Evans a place of public benefit service that is honoring to those who served there.

*Reasons to tell persons why to donate (via check or PayPal) to our effort NOW: *1) Saves an incredibly historic site2) Honors WWII Signal Corps and Honor Front veterans3) Helps education by inspiring kids to learn science4) Furthers the development of a NJ Shore tourist destination.5) Will create full and part-time employment6) Improves property values in the North Wall and Shark River area.7) We are the White House recognized stewards of the Camp Evans Historic District and now it is under our protection for future generations

**No Passion = No Progress. We have passion and we are progressing - even if it is tough sometimes.**If we do not tell kids what great things others have done to improve our nation how can we expect them to know what they are capable of.

Thank you,Fred

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